The jackpot dollar battles take entries all during the week. They are usually held at Sunday afternoons from 2 pm to 10 pm server time. The players that have entered drop at random into various maps until all the maps has about 500 contestants. There are several round, and after each round the players that are left are put into new maps with 500 spacecrafts on each. The last 500 man match is call the death match and the winner here takes home the real cash!

Start out with doing the best paying quests. You’ll need money to join a good clan as soon as possible. Keep doing the newest quests and level up. At level five or six there is a decent chance you’ll be invited into a clan. Some clans are really nice and help you with cash for an even better ship. Good luck.

Also make sure your honor don’t go into negative. If you don’t know much about honor yet check out the post here on this site about honor. Basically if your honor goes into negative you won’t earn as much money for selling raw materials to your spacestation, which is not a good thing obviously.

You should also try to get familiar with the map, so that you don’t get lost, and pay attention to where your teams spacestation is. Also practice all the different controls so that you improve your skills for the PVP later on.

When you’ve spent a while gathering credits and buying ammunition and missiles you should start going after uridium. This is the elite currency in the game. You need this to buy the best items and ships in the game, as well as repairing your own ship. You get this by doing quests and killing enemies.

The most well known of these bonuses is probably the happy hour. That is a special time period when you get double the normal amount when you buy something in the shop. The happy hours are announced on the logon splash screen, and it lasts like the name indicate for one hour. There is also the mega happy hour when you get 3x the amount when you buy something in the shop.

Another type of multiplier jo can get is the banking bonus. These are usually obtained during special events during Christmas and Easter, as well as other times during the year. These come in three different types, 2x, 3x and 4x bonuses. You can only have one of these at any given time, and you can only use it one time. You know that you have gotten one of these bonuses when the banking message flashes in the top left corner of your flight screen. Happy bonus hunting!

Shields.
SG3N-A01 - 1000 shield strength, absorbs 40% damage.
SG3N-A02 - 2000 shield strength, absorbs 50% damage.
SG3N-B01 - 4000 shield strength, absorbs 70% damage.
SG3N-A03 - 5000 shield strength, absorbs 60% damage.
SG3N-B02 - 10000 shield strength, absorbs 80% damage.

Engines.
G3N-1010 - Increases the ships speed by 2.
G3N-2010 - Increases the ships speed by 3.
G3N-3210 - Increases the ships speed by 4.
G3N-3310 - Increases the ships speed by 5.
G3N-6900 - Increases the ships speed by 7.
G3N-7900 - Increases the ships speed by 10.

Repair bots.
RepairBot 1 - 5000 hitpoints repair per minute
RepairBot 2 - 5000 hitpoints repair per minute
RepairBot 3 - 5000 hitpoints repair per minute

Lasers.
LF1 - max 40 damage.
MP1 - max 60 damage.
LF2 - max 100 damage.
LF3 - max 150 damage.

Laser ammunition.
LCB-10 - 1x damage.
MCB-25 - 2x damage.
MCB-50 - 3x damage.

Rockets.
R310 - 1000 damage per hit.
PTL-2026 - 2000 damage per hit.
PTL-2121 - 4000 damage per hit.

Mines.
ACM-1 - 20% damage when detonated.

As a new player to Dark Orbit I think it’s a good idea to join a clan as soon as possible. It doesn’t have to be a large elite clan, you probably won’t get in to one of those anyways, but do try to find a clan that is active. It’s really nice to have some more experienced clan members to ask when there is something you can’t figure out in the game.  Many clans are also don’t mind helping out new players with credits if they need that, but don’t go around begging for credits, that won’t make you popular and may lead to you being thrown out. Being member of a clan is really a nice social part of the game, and later in the game it’s a lot of fun fighting other players and NPCs together with other clan members.

This list is from the English Dark Orbit forum, and one of the posts there explains the rank calculation formula. Basically each player gets a point value that is a sum of almost everything you’ve done in the game, like kills, quests, NPC kills, level, etc. All the points values are calculated daily and added to a list, and the list is devided up according to the guidelines above.

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